Sex Before Marrage

honourable <FI>is<Fi> the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.

And concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: good <FI>it is<Fi> for a man not to touch a woman, — read the full passage →

flee the whoredom; every sin--whatever a man may commit--is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin. — read the full passage →

`And when a man doth entice a virgin who <FI>is<Fi> not betrothed, and hath lain with her, he doth certainly endow her to himself for a wife;

And I say to the unmarried and to the widows: it is good for them if they may remain even as I <FI>am<Fi> ; — read the full passage →

therefore doth a man leave his father and his mother, and hath cleaved unto his wife, and they have become one flesh.

for this is the will of God--your sanctification; that ye abstain from the whoredom, — read the full passage →

Every one who is doing the sin, the lawlessness also he doth do, and the sin is the lawlessness, — read the full passage →

And it cometh to pass after these things, that his lord's wife lifteth up her eyes unto Joseph, and saith, `Lie with me;' — read the full passage →

I have adjured you, daughters of Jerusalem, By the roes or by the hinds of the field, Stir not up nor wake the love till she please!

`Thou dost not commit adultery.

and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband;

Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved, — read the full passage →

flee the whoredom; every sin--whatever a man may commit--is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin.

Put to death, then, your members that <FI>are<Fi> upon the earth--whoredom, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and the covetousness, which is idolatry--

And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

for this is the will of God--your sanctification; that ye abstain from the whoredom,

but I--I say to you, that every one who is looking on a woman to desire her, did already commit adultery with her in his heart.

`And when a man doth entice a virgin who <FI>is<Fi> not betrothed, and hath lain with her, he doth certainly endow her to himself for a wife; — read the full passage →

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

And I say, so long time as the heir is a babe, he differeth nothing from a servant--being lord of all, — read the full passage →

if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness;

And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness, — read the full passage →

`Ye heard that it was said to the ancients: Thou shalt not commit adultery; — read the full passage →

and whoredom, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints;

And He did not make one <FI>only<Fi> , And He hath the remnant of the Spirit. And what <FI>is<Fi> the one <FI>alone<Fi> ! He is seeking a godly seed. And ye have been watchful over your spirit, And with the wife of thy youth, None doth deal treacherously.

Defraud not one another, except by consent for a time, that ye may be free for fasting and prayer, and again may come together, that the Adversary may not tempt you because of your incontinence;

have ye not known that the unrighteous the reign of God shall not inherit? be not led astray; neither whoremongers, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites,

`And a man who committeth adultery with a man's wife--who committeth adultery with the wife of his neighbour--the adulterer and the adulteress are surely put to death.

for this ye know, that every whoremonger, or unclean, or covetous person, who is an idolater, hath no inheritance in the reign of the Christ and God.

And concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: good <FI>it is<Fi> for a man not to touch a woman, — read the full passage →

the commands thou hast known: Thou mayest not commit adultery, Thou mayest do no murder, Thou mayest not steal, Thou mayest not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother.'

A clean heart prepare for me, O God, And a right spirit renew within me. — read the full passage →

`And with a male thou dost not lie as one lieth with a woman; abomination it <FI>is<Fi> .

And there was given to me a reed like to a rod, and the messenger stood, saying, `Rise, and measure the sanctuary of God, and the altar, and those worshipping in it; — read the full passage →

but from the beginning of the creation, a male and a female God did make them; — read the full passage →

because all that <FI>is<Fi> in the world--the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the ostentation of the life--is not of the Father, but of the world,

As to the rest, then, brethren, we request you, and call upon you in the Lord Jesus, as ye did receive from us how it behoveth you to walk and to please God, that ye may abound the more, — read the full passage →

to the wife let the husband the due benevolence render, and in like manner also the wife to the husband;

All things are lawful to me, but all things are not profitable; all things are lawful to me, but I--I will not be under authority by any; — read the full passage →

Whoredom is actually heard of among you, and such whoredom as is not even named among the nations--as that one hath the wife of the father! --

for this is the will of God--your sanctification; that ye abstain from the whoredom, — read the full passage →

Let thy fountain be blessed, And rejoice because of the wife of thy youth, — read the full passage →

Beloved, I call upon <FI>you<Fi> , as strangers and sojourners, to keep from the fleshly desires, that war against the soul,

for out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, whoredoms, thefts, false witnessings, evil speakings:

And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying, — read the full passage →

and to fearful, and unstedfast, and abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all the liars, their part <FI>is<Fi> in the lake that is burning with fire and brimstone, which is a second death.'

If, then, ye were raised with the Christ, the things above seek ye, where the Christ is, on the right hand of God seated, — read the full passage →

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →

Drink waters out of thine own cistern, Even flowing ones out of thine own well. — read the full passage →

How wonderful have been thy loves, my sister-spouse, How much better have been thy loves than wine, And the fragrance of thy perfumes than all spices.

for where zeal and rivalry <FI>are<Fi> , there is insurrection and every evil matter; — read the full passage →

And he said--`That which is coming out from the man, that doth defile the man; — read the full passage →

So <FI>is<Fi> my friend among the daughters!

A hind of loves, and a roe of grace! Let her loves satisfy thee at all times, In her love magnify thyself continually.

And it cometh to pass, at the revolution of the year--at the time of the going out of the messengers--that David sendeth Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel, and they destroy the Bene-Ammon, and lay siege against Rabbah. And David is dwelling in Jerusalem, — read the full passage →

Words of Lemuel a king, a declaration that his mother taught him: — read the full passage →

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Timotheus the brother, — read the full passage →

the meats <FI>are<Fi> for the belly, and the belly for the meats. And God both this and these shall make useless; and the body <FI>is<Fi> not for whoredom, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body;

`Happy the clean in heart--because they shall see God.

And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying, — read the full passage →

Judas, of Jesus Christ a servant, and brother of James, to those sanctified in God the Father, and in Jesus Christ kept--called, — read the full passage →

for God did not call us on uncleanness, but in sanctification;

and the youthful lusts flee thou, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those calling upon the Lord out of a pure heart;

and because of the abounding of the lawlessness, the love of the many shall become cold; — read the full passage →

And there did come also false prophets among the people, as also among you there shall be false teachers, who shall bring in besides destructive sects, and the Master who bought them denying, bringing to themselves quick destruction, — read the full passage →

I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice--living, sanctified, acceptable to God--your intelligent service; — read the full passage →

And if thine eye may cause thee to stumble, cast it out; it is better for thee one-eyed to enter into the reign of God, than having two eyes, to be cast to the gehenna of the fire-- — read the full passage →

`The lamp of the body is the eye, if, therefore, thine eye may be perfect, all thy body shall be enlightened, — read the full passage →

And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying, — read the full passage →

The heart of the wise <FI>is<Fi> in a house of mourning, And the heart of fools in a house of mirth. — read the full passage →

The wicked hath desired the net of evil doers, And the root of the righteous giveth. — read the full passage →

The righteousness of the upright delivereth them, And in mischief the treacherous are captured. — read the full passage →

`And who <FI>is<Fi> the man that hath betrothed a woman, and hath not taken her? --let him go and turn back to his house, lest he die in battle, and another man take her. — read the full passage →

And the heavens and the earth are completed, and all their host; — read the full passage →

and the youthful lusts flee thou, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those calling upon the Lord out of a pure heart; — read the full passage →

lest again having come, my God may humble me in regard to you, and I may bewail many of those having sinned before, and not having reformed concerning the uncleanness, and whoredom, and lasciviousness, that they did practise.

but I--I say to you, that whoever may put away his wife, save for the matter of whoredom, doth make her to commit adultery; and whoever may marry her who hath been put away doth commit adultery.

And God blesseth them, and God saith to them, `Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over fish of the sea, and over fowl of the heavens, and over every living thing that is creeping upon the earth.'

I have known thy works, and tribulation, and poverty--yet thou art rich--and the evil-speaking of those saying themselves to be Jews, and are not, but <FI>are<Fi> a synagogue of the Adversary. — read the full passage →

Love not ye the world, nor the things in the world; if any one doth love the world, the love of the Father is not in him, — read the full passage →

James, of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ a servant, to the Twelve Tribes who are in the dispersion: Hail! — read the full passage →

Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of the choice ones of God, and an acknowledging of truth that <FI>is<Fi> according to piety, — read the full passage →

for sin over you shall not have lordship, for ye are not under law, but under grace. — read the full passage →

And it cometh to pass, at that time, that Judah goeth down from his brethren, and turneth aside unto a man, an Adullamite, whose name <FI>is<Fi> Hirah; — read the full passage →

because of the wine of the wrath of her whoredom have all the nations drunk, and the kings of the earth with her did commit whoredom, and merchants of the earth from the power of her revel were made rich. — read the full passage →

And there came one of the seven messengers, who were having the seven vials, and he spake with me, saying to me, `Come, I will shew to thee the judgment of the great whore, who is sitting upon the many waters, — read the full passage →

and their dead bodies <FI>are<Fi> upon the broad-place of the great city (that is called spiritually Sodom, and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified,) — read the full passage →

Your souls having purified in the obedience of the truth through the Spirit to brotherly love unfeigned, out of a pure heart one another love ye earnestly, — read the full passage →

Thou didst make him some little less than messengers, with glory and honour Thou didst crown him, and didst set him over the works of Thy hands, — read the full passage →

having known this, that for a righteous man law is not set, but for lawless and insubordinate persons, ungodly and sinners, impious and profane, parricides and matricides, men-slayers,

from all appearance of evil abstain ye;

honour thy father and mother, — read the full passage →

This, then, I say, and I testify in the Lord; ye are no more to walk, as also the other nations walk, in the vanity of their mind, — read the full passage →

Also you--being dead in the trespasses and the sins, — read the full passage →

for now men do I persuade, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if yet men I did please--Christ's servant I should not be. — read the full passage →

for I fear lest, having come, not such as I wish I may find you, and I--I may be found by you such as ye do not wish, lest there be strifes, envyings, wraths, revelries, evil-speakings, whisperings, puffings up, insurrections, — read the full passage →

If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling; — read the full passage →

who also shall confirm you unto the end--unblamable in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ; — read the full passage →

And I call upon you, brethren, to mark those who the divisions and the stumbling-blocks, contrary to the teaching that ye did learn, are causing, and turn ye away from them; — read the full passage →